Persona 4 Anime To Invade The Backside Of The TV [Update]

The Persona 4 anime is “officially official.” AIC ASTA, who have previously worked on Bamboo Blade amongst other anime shows, are in charge of the series’ production. There’s a proper website up for the anime now.

The staff and cast page reveals a few additional details. Kazuma Kaneko, who you know as Atlus’ demon designer is credited for Persona designs. Shigenori Soejima is credited for character design. However, Shoji Meguro, music composer for the Persona series, is credited for providing the anime series’ music as well. Is Meguro creating new music specifically for the anime, or will the series use certain tracks from the game? (Or both?)

Additionally, the site reveals that the protagonist has a new name for the anime. Instead of Seta Souji, as he’s referred to in the Persona 4 manga, he’s called Yu Narukami in the anime.

Update: Here’s another teaser trailer. Thanks to MisterDandylion for linking to it in the comments!

We’re talking about Yu, he’s the most awesome pimp in the gaming history, if he won’t end up with all girls, then at least one of them, though, I won’t say my favorite for staying spoiler free here. However Yukiko is probably the most “canonical” one.

Ren

Nope, if we’re talking about most canonical it’s Rise, she the one who hits on him every single second. I love the Yu puns.

@Ren
I always saw Rise as more of the cheery 2nd girl we have in a lot of animes, you know like you said the one who always tries to hit on the main. And totally, I start to like the name if only for the awesome puns~

fuzzy_hobo

Oh, I do not doubt Yu’s awesomeness. Technically, P4 could be a “true” harem anime and you could argue it is still faithful to the game (getting all the girls). But…no, no, no–can’t think that way!

malek86

Usually the canonical girl would be the first one. Rise appears a bit too late to be consequential in that regard.

*spoilers*

Besides, isn’t she totally smitten for Adachi? I mean, in the last dungeon she kinda agrees with what he says.

@Ash HaHa! Brazil is very far from Japan, and the shipping costs will kill you. Give up while you still have time! Also, I live secluded from the rest of the world, you’d need a very good map to find my house.

Alright just wanted to put spoilers, but whatever, I’m with you!!! Naoto is obviously the best choice!

urbanscholar

Yes

DanteJones

Oh crap, didn’t even think about that. :O Is there a way to add that black bar thing over the text?

urbanscholar

*applause*

Zero_Destiny

NO YU SPOILED IT FOR ME!!!!!!!! lol I kid Ren did that a long time ago
:P
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Ren

Wait, when did I spoil you that? Wait, how the hell could you not have you know that by sight, hell, people knew about that the day the character was announced. Hell, if you hear the voice there’s no way that it will fool you!

Zero_Destiny

On Bounce with your favorite character theard or something. Was WAY back before the good days when I started to spam your profile. I don’t know if Yu put a warning or not but I read it. :P Don’t worry Ren I don’t mind. :)

You certainly can make the argument that Yukiko would be the canon girl from how the game plays out. Chie basically throws her at ya and makes sure you know it. Chie and Naoto just strike me as more the best friend archetype and unless this is Shuffle, the best friend never wins the boy. Too many folks would want you dead if you ended up with Risette.

…But that’s unfair, Chie doesn’t fight with her hands, but with her feet~

Zero_Destiny

HAVE WE DONE IT? HAVE WE FINALLY SPIRALED A THREAD SO FAR OUTTA CONTROL THAT IT HAS ALMOST NOTHING TO DO WITH IT”S ORIGINAL PURPOSE AND IS NOW JUST A FREE-FOR-ALL? Oh yeah we do that all the time and it’s my one of my fav things about the site!!!!! RANDOM
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Ren

I’m sorry for every new guy who decides to take a look on the comments on threads like this. Sometimes I think we’re scaring new posters. I remember how I suffered to read the Valentines post because I got late.

Zero_Destiny

lol That is how I first met Yui-chan. He asked me “What the Hell is going on, I can’t understand this.” I replied “We all went crazy and the thread is a mess.” He said “I like it. That’s how conversations should be a complete mess.” Then our unbreakable bond of nakama was formed. Good times. :)

Ren

“It was love on first sight!”
Can I ship you two?

Zero_Destiny

Only is it brings a smile to your face. But don’t tell Rydia. She’s my first love. <3
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Yui

If I remember correctly, I have already been shipped with a great deal of community members. It is both intriguing and slightly unnerving. XD

Yui

*brofist*

Zero_Destiny

Remember to eat your brofist every morning before you go to school, it’s the most important part of the day!!! XD

Yui

…eat…brofist???
me confused. me no know how eat brofist. :(

Zero_Destiny

Put it in your mouth and chew!!! XD

Yui

You want me to chew on your hand? That’s pretty kinky. Also, I will bite straight through your deliciously fleshy arm, straight to the bone, I hope you know. I have the chompers of a great white shark. :P

Zero_Destiny

Who said it was my hand? I’m not your brother. I’m your main man and your bro (You can call me Aniki) but I’m not your brother. Eat your own flesh and blood.

Yui

…uh oh

i just ate my own hand

i think…i bit off more than i can chew :P

Zero_Destiny

A new definition for hand to mouth was just created!!!!! XD

M’iau M’iaut

Well, I did already see School Days mentioned. Which means THE GREAT YANDERE DEBATE v2 could open for business right here! If only one of the girls (even a secondary one) in P4 was one. Aigis was the closest I think the current Persona’s have gotten to that wonderful type, save perhaps the bad girl you could cut school with.

That’s why we should learn from Makoto-Senpai!! He was a pioneer, he showed us how awesome a harem can be, but sadly he was not prepared for the outcome at his time….he died while showing us how to NOT handle a harem, so we won’t make the same mistakes! *salute*

You can max all girls in one playthrough, but you have to decide which one you really love near the end of the game, you also can decide to stay friends with all of them..but what’s the fun of that right? x3

You can be in romantic relationships with all of your female schoolmates that you set up a social link in the same play-through. It all depends on certain key dialogue choices in during certain social link events. If you did everything correctly, the relationship prompt comes up at the end of either of the girl’s 8th or 9th event.

CHANGE!! CHANGE IS GOOD ZERO!! OUR TAMASHI NEEDS CHANGE IN ORDER TO BECOME STRONGER

Zero_Destiny

No your Tamashii can only grow in strength through perseverance!!!!! Stay true to your pic!!!! I’ve abandoned it once in my madness but never again er at least for awhile. It’s OK though I still got Aoshi on my side. ^_^

Like M’iau said new season new avatar, I have to share my love for Lotte-chan <3
I searched for Maria Holic, but couldn't find one I really liked other than the one I had the first(the one with the foot~)

Yeah, that’s what happens when crazy fans have too much free time simultaneously..~ xd

Ren

I hope Trist turned off notifications, or else his e-mail and message box must be full. Why didn’t you guys mention the director too? Granted, I don’t care much about anime directors, but putting Kishi Seiji up there would be good, right?

Zero_Destiny

Argh you beat me too it. And darn all of YU!!!! I go back to class and miss out on the PERSONA x School Days conversation!!!! Way to have all the fun without me!!!!!!! >8(

*points at his avatar*
It’s your own fault!! Who cares about class when he is in the middle of PERSONA talk which is just about to kick into School Days territory?! Pff, I should torture you for this~!

Couldn’t agree more man Seta Souji just sounds so much more badass! :D

Whoomp

It’s not like they “changed” anything though. The P4 protagonist is a mere canavas that you project a personality to without fixed standards, the producers of the anime probably felt that they wanted to take him in a different direction than the manga.

Aoshi00

I think the new name Narukami Yuu sounds cooler.. his drama name Seta Souji reminds me too much of Seta Soujirou from Rurouni Kenshin.. but it’s kinda weird he has a new name now.. like how they changed Asuka’s name from Souryuu Asuka Langley to Shikinami Asuka Langley in the new EVA movie all of a sudden, at least that’s only her last name..

It sounds cooler indeed. :D Nice name: Narukami Yu (Kinda makes me think of when Homer Simpson changes his name to Max Power just because it sounded badass) hahaha

Aoshi00

W/ great name comes great power indeed :).. It’s funny when you find out how plain some of the actors’ real names are…

I guess for the P4 MC, they could take more liberty and start from scratch for the anime ver.. still they keep the same seiyuu from the drama CD.. they should’ve changed the voice as well..

Ren

Did they really call him Seta Souji on the dramas? I don’t remember that. I though they used things like leader, aibo and etc to keep from saying it.

Aoshi00

I haven’t listened to all the drama since I haven’t finished the game yet (I just beat the 8-bit castle and Naoto came out). I think you’re right, even after they named the MC in the drama, everyone still avoided saying his name by calling him sensei or senpai just like the game..

Yuu does sound cooler to me though, it’s a unisex name, Seta Souji just sounded lame to me because it was so much like Kenshin’s Seta Soujirou.. wonder if they’d be calling him Yuu in the anime at all, guess they would still at least say his name when they introduce him, otherwise there’s really not much point to naming him yet again..

To me there’s only one Yuu in anime, it was Matsuura Yuu from Marmalade Boy… so many “Yuuuuuuuu” lol.. (I can’t find a video of Miki whining Yuu though…)

It was implied in some sources that Minato was a more laid-back MC while Trinity Soul’s MC was more like an average-joe-kind-of guy. An interesting observation that can be made is that, in my opinion, Souji Seta is more like cocky type of MC (from this point on I will refer to Souji and Narukami Yu as different paradigms of P4’s MC -after all: what’s the point of retelling the story of Inaba with the same kind of character ;) )

Obviously the anime ain’t canon just like the manga.
It’s like the multiple endings in nocturne.
It’s only canon when the creators said so.

Ren

But if the creators are involved in the anime, doesn’t that mean that the anime universe is canon? After all, even if there can be no canon in the game, the anime can still be considered so.

evilmoogle

I don’t think so.
Only character designer + composer is involved.
but if they were really involved in the production then yes.

They can also say: “this is just a alternate universe “

Angeru_Lito

Shoji Meguro is doing the music huh?….. Yeaaaaaah! know that i know this I can´t wait to see it, hear it? even if the music is a remix from the P4 soundtrack i don´t care at leas I know the sound its going to be great

I was always taught to be grateful. Seriously, not to sound like a suck-up, you guys provide the info and we should be grateful :) (Seriously, I consider Siliconera, an escape to the mess and hipocrisy that can be Gamespot, IGN to name a few)

I don´t know who to feel about this whole “what is going to be canon”, for me canon is my name (this one) ,canon was the girl I choose Chie, canon was the max social links a got , its like Mass Effect There´s no Canon storyline but mine!

Acording to the japanese website: Daisuke Namikawa, Showtaro Morikubo, Yui Horie and Ami Koshimizu will reprise their original roles as MC, Yosuke, Chie and Yukiko (the first 4 leads). NO further information has been said yet about Kanji, Naoto, Rise or Teddy’s VAs. Neither was said about the other characters.

AND…! As our good friend Philemon would say (I MISS HIM):

“…..And those who are brave…..I reward them…..WITH THIS….!! Persona…. the power of the soul….. now stand up little warrior and defy darkness….”

EDIT: Also Seiji Kishi (Seto no Hanayome; Angel Beats!) is directing it and AIC ASTA will provide the animation.

Ren

The only one who’s fated to change is Igor, since his old VA died. They’ve been using the game’s VA for the Drama CDs too, so I take for granted all Main characters will have the same ones from the game.

I liked Angel Beats. Although they tried to be an anime that consists of every single genre, but I still appreciate their effort for trying to be entertaining instead of relying on moeblobs.

Ren

I loved Angel Beats to death, until the final revelation. It’s like finding the love of your live and having a great year with that person just then to be told you got a STD from that person and you’ll die in one month.

The show was too much for me I have to say..I don’t have a problem with deep stories and characters, in fact I love them, and the soundtrack alone was worth the time you spend on it, but the plot and how it all ended, man that’s why I don’t watch drama animes too, I like me my normal happy ending..~

Ren

@Ash yeah, but asking for a believable ending is not too much. And I really liked Otonashi/Kanade, it was a very deal breaker for me!

MisterDandylion

Haha That has to be the funniest analogy I’ve ever heard xD So true.

Seto no Hanayome….I just couldn’t stand the fact that it went MINDFUCK MODE every 5 seconds. For me, it went from funny to stupid to boring really fast :S

You made me shed tears of joy!! P3P Maria Holic, that would be the most hilarious game ever, we just need to hack the game so that you can hit on the female cast with the FemC and that she has an allergic reaction if touched by men. Though, I give up on Oofuri, can’t remember watching that~

Ren

Oofuri is the closest you can get into Yaoi without being Yaoi… or a Jump show.

M’iau M’iaut

I still wanted the chance as the female lead to go cougar on Kenji…..and who knows where a girl and her dog could have lead.

@puchinri
She naturally is still there!! The show would be way too boring without the lovely Kanae! xD

puchinri

Oh man, that would be the best thing ever to have it as Maria Holic and then Oofuri~ (and now I need to see if s.2 of Maria Holic started yet…). And you gotta watch it. It’s ….Maria Holic? (I don’t know if I should call it amazing, ridiculous or what.)

WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM HUMANS?!Girls dont say ewwe with girl to girl, boys say that with boy to boy, but girls dont, they are pretty much like, “meh” when it’s about that…, you still have a long way to go my little grasshopper.THERE IS SO MUCH YOU GOT TO LEARN IN THIS VAST WORLD, EXPAND YOUR HORIZONS

Lol what th f… xD, actually i talk kinda from experience, dont ask why, because i dont know, that converstation subject appeared in some conversation with some girls i’ve met through my life, and all the reaction i’ve seen so far is what i said O.o

Ren

I also talk from experience, when you say girl on girl most girls don’t care, but when you say them with another girl they are going to throw a fit and start screaming something about VAGINA like crazy. Happened with a friend last week, it was funny to watch her shrieking.